Hi everyone,
It's time again to participate in the poll for this month's meeting.
Some US Wikimedians will be at Wikimania, so I tried to offer some time
choices that might work for people who will participate from time zones in
the US and Europe. I also tried to offer choices on the days before and
after the busiest Wikimania days.
Possible dates are:
Monday, June 20
Tuesday, June 21
Wednesday, June 22
(break)
Tuesday, June 28
Wednesday, June 29
Thursday, June 30
Please go here to indicate your schedule preference:
http://doodle.com/poll/9y2x39kvg8qrz8tg
Here is our tentative agenda:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WALRUS/June_2016
Please discuss on the talk page whether you think we should try recording
this meeting and making it available for public playback:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WALRUS/June_2016#Should_we_record_the_…
Thanks!
Pine
Two US Wikimedians, and GLAM Boot Camp veterans, have been named
Wikipedians of the Year by Jimmy Wales at Wikimania 2016. Wikimedia DC
board member Emily Temple-Wood and Rosie Stephenson-Goodnight, founder of
Wiki Women in Red and The Teahouse.
Congrats to them, and what great year it’s been for US efforts.
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/06/24/wikipedians-of-the-year/
-Andrew
Forwarding to GLAM lists.
Pine
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From: "Ivan Martínez" <galaver(a)gmail.com>
Date: Jun 3, 2016 15:43
Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] 72 hours with Rodin editathon in Mexico
City
To: <WikimediaAnnounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc:
Hi everyone.
This June, Wikimedia Mexico will run the editathon* 72 hours with Rodin* a
huge journey from June 9 to 12 at Museo Soumaya[1]. This time we're trying
to break our previous record (60 continuous hours), this time we're trying
to achieve an even greater marathon: more than 70 continuous hours editing
Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata and Wikisource. We are celebrating
the arrival to the museum of one of Auguste Rodin's masterpieces: ''The
Gates of Hell'', so, we will have a celebration about art and free
knowledge which will include talks, theater pieces, guided tours, workshops
and fun time activities as karaoke nights. You saw it at Wikimania,
Wikimedia Mexico volunteers love fun also :) The museum will be open also
to public during that 72 hours.
The editathon will focus on Auguste Rodin works and the Museo Soumaya
collections, but beyond that we have higher goals like completing the full
list of museums in Mexico and at least 50 biographies on importan women in
art and feminism as part of our permanent and transversal Gender Gap
Reduction Strategy. In this list (in Spanish)[2] you can find more about
the event and the list of articles. As in other editathons at Museo
Soumaya[3], we are inviting all Wikimedia chapters and affiliates to join
this effort and support us translating articles to more languages. As you
can see in the list, this time we are doing a detailed logistic which
involves pairing Wikimedia Mexico volunteers with museum staff (researchers
and/or curators), aiming to increase experience of the museum’s staff on
Wikipedia.
*72 hours with Rodin* will pursuit to set a new record and it’s an event
prepared since January, escalating in intensity since two months ago with
the coordination by Andrés Cruz y Corro (User:Andycyca), head of volunteers
in Wikimania 2015. As a matter of fact, 60% of the Wikimania 2015 Yellow
Army will be present on the event.
We will love to have support from Wikimedia community in the translation of
the articles produced in the editathon to more languages of the globe.
Please don’t hesitate if you want to join the editathon!
Best,
Iván Martínez
President
Wikimedia Mexico
[1]
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiproyecto:Museo_Soumaya/Editat%C3%B3n_72_H…
[2]
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiproyecto:Museo_Soumaya/Editat%C3%B3n_72_H…
[3]
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/11/05/50-hours-of-art-the-museo-soumaya-edi…
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All,
I'm definitely interested in hearing thoughts, questions, and/or reactions to the Horizon Report as I'm the report's advisory panel and continually push for ways to bring awareness of the potential of wiki-based projects to the wider museum community.
Adrianne Russell-------- Original message --------From: Alex Stinson <astinson(a)wikimedia.org> Date: 6/6/2016 10:05 AM (GMT-06:00) To: Wikimedia Chapters cultural partners coordination <cultural-partners(a)wikimedia.ch>, North American Cultural Partnerships <glam-us(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "Wikimedia & GLAM collaboration [Public]" <glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: [GLAM-US] New Media Consoritium Horizon Report for Museums and Technology
Hey All,
The New Media Consoritium just put out their technologies and Museums report. Its definitely worth a read, I hope you get a chance: http://www.nmc.org/publication/nmc-horizon-report-2016-museum-edition/
A handful of highlights stand out to me in the GLAM-Wiki context: One of their "important policy" changes, is the growing importance of Networks, Consortia, and Alliances to help museums solve technological problems beyond individual organization capacity. This seems to have a lot of oppportunity for our work: Alex Hinojo has been leading a lot of success Catalonia, with the Catalan Public Library network: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Case_studies/Catalonia%27s_Network… is the close thing to a consortia . Similarly, the York Museum Trust w/ Pat Hadley, had a lot of scaling impact. Similarly. I have seen reports from both WMDE and WMSV that suggest focusing on networks to create impact. Instead of having a single organization buy in to our outreach, it might be worth focusing more time and energy on strategically focused networks whose main goal is expanding the capacity of oragnizations within the networks.Digital humanities -- one of the emerging technologies they focus on is the analysis and interactive projects being developed by the cluster of research called "digitial humanities". These projects are pushing a lot of cultural heritage sharing with the public onto the internet in interactive ways, with considerable integration with works being done by students. This appears like an opportunity for us to think more about how we hybrize the Wikimedia Education program and GLAM-Wiki with a focus on the humanities -- unlike the sciences where STEM outreach and the current version of the Education Program have been very successful, there hasn't been much success in expert engagement from the humanities in project like Wikidata and Wikipedias. Also, this seems to be important for the diversity gaps that Art+Feminism and other projects largely located in GLAMs would be well suited to work on.Social media -- throughout the report, there is increased interest in social media and external engagement with patrons/audiences. Making sure that we maintain a social media presence, spreading the word of GLAM-Wiki as part of OpenGLAM (rather than just a predecessor), seems to be a way to join the conversation and improve the impact of our work. Distributed projects like #colorourcollection seem to have a similar level of enthusiasm as our #1lib1ref campaign -- we ought to examine how our engagement with other cultural heritage can also be part of these changing opportunities.Interactive and VR media - VR seems like a major gap in our current infrastructure -- we don't even have much in the way of immersive panaromic support, much less the range of other media types. Spending energy finding partners in this space might help us be a destination for GLAMs to store workproduct in this psace (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133526 ) Visualization + Open Data -- increasingly data analysts and data visualizations are being used within Museums and on their website with the growing power of Wikidata, its going to be worth having our visualization tools in your backpocket -- (check out Zika research from WikiCite : https://twitter.com/wikicite16/status/735845122903027712 or John's recent work on the Bioreserve material http://www.wikilovesearth.bio/ ) . I am also beginning conversations with the Maps and Graphs team at WMF about the GLAM-Wiki use cases for their tools, especially if they could be embedded externally like Commons media. These are all my initial thoughts -- please poke holes in them, ask questions, or propose any thoughts/challenges you might notice.
I am going to be hosting a session at Wikimania about the future of GLAM-Wiki, where we can think through what some of the opportunities are in this space -- please bring ideas, think about what ways you want to see GLAM-Wiki grow and change: https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Discussions/Glam
Cheers,
Alex Stinson
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Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
Hey All,
The New Media Consoritium just put out their technologies and Museums
report. Its definitely worth a read, I hope you get a chance:
http://www.nmc.org/publication/nmc-horizon-report-2016-mus
<http://www.nmc.org/publication/nmc-horizon-report-2016-museum-edition/>
eum-edition/
<http://www.nmc.org/publication/nmc-horizon-report-2016-museum-edition/>
A handful of highlights stand out to me in the GLAM-Wiki context:
- One of their "important policy" changes, is the *growing importance of
Networks, Consortia, and Alliances* to help museums solve technological
problems beyond individual organization capacity. This seems to have a lot
of oppportunity for our work: Alex Hinojo has been leading a lot of success
Catalonia, with the Catalan Public Library network:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Case_studies/Catalonia%27s_Network…
is the close thing to a consortia . Similarly, the York Museum Trust w/ Pat
Hadley, had a lot of scaling impact. Similarly. I have seen reports from
both WMDE and WMSV that suggest focusing on networks to create impact.
Instead of having a single organization buy in to our outreach, it might be
worth focusing more time and energy on strategically focused networks whose
main goal is expanding the capacity of oragnizations within the networks.
- *Digital humanities* -- one of the emerging technologies they focus on
is the analysis and interactive projects being developed by the cluster of
research called "digitial humanities". These projects are pushing a lot of
cultural heritage sharing with the public onto the internet in interactive
ways, with considerable integration with works being done by students. This
appears like an opportunity for us to think more about how we hybrize the
Wikimedia Education program and GLAM-Wiki with a focus on the humanities --
unlike the sciences where STEM outreach and the current version of the
Education Program have been very successful, there hasn't been much success
in expert engagement from the humanities in project like Wikidata and
Wikipedias. Also, this seems to be important for the diversity gaps that
Art+Feminism and other projects largely located in GLAMs would be well
suited to work on.
- *Social media* -- throughout the report, there is increased interest
in social media and external engagement with patrons/audiences. Making sure
that we maintain a social media presence, spreading the word of GLAM-Wiki
as part of OpenGLAM (rather than just a predecessor), seems to be a way to
join the conversation and improve the impact of our work. Distributed
projects like #colorourcollection seem to have a similar level of
enthusiasm as our #1lib1ref campaign -- we ought to examine how our
engagement with other cultural heritage can also be part of these changing
opportunities.
- *Interactive and VR media* - VR seems like a major gap in our current
infrastructure -- we don't even have much in the way of immersive panaromic
support, much less the range of other media types. Spending energy finding
partners in this space might help us be a destination for GLAMs to store
workproduct in this psace (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133526 )
- *Visualization + Open Data* -- increasingly data analysts and data
visualizations are being used within Museums and on their website with the
growing power of Wikidata, its going to be worth having our visualization
tools in your backpocket -- (check out Zika research from WikiCite :
https://twitter.com/wikicite16/status/735845122903027712 or John's
recent work on the Bioreserve material http://www.wikilovesearth.bio/ )
. I am also beginning conversations with the Maps and Graphs team at WMF
about the GLAM-Wiki use cases for their tools, especially if they could be
embedded externally like Commons media.
These are all my initial thoughts -- please poke holes in them, ask
questions, or propose any thoughts/challenges you might notice.
I am going to be hosting a session at Wikimania about the future of
GLAM-Wiki, where we can think through what some of the opportunities are in
this space -- please bring ideas, think about what ways you want to see
GLAM-Wiki grow and change:
https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Discussions/Glam
Cheers,
Alex Stinson
--
Alex Stinson
GLAM-Wiki Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads
Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
Hi Teri,
This might be included in a video series that I'm producing. The videos are
likely to be available late this year, and I'm planning to discuss GLAM
tools, although time limitations will force tradeoffs regarding which
subjects the videos will cover. In the meantime, I'm pinging WMF's new GLAM
liason, Alex Stinson, who may be able to point you in the right direction
and/or may be able to create relevant documentation.
Pine
On May 27, 2016 09:05, "Teri Embrey" <tembrey(a)pritzkermilitary.org> wrote:
I second the desire for a laymen’s guide for partner analytics for GLAM
institutions. We report monthly to internal stakeholders on the Museum &
Library’s Wikipedia contributions. Having a guide to the analytics so that
we could better convey these statistics would be most appreciated.
--Teri Embrey
Theresa A. R. Embrey, MLIS
Chief Librarian
Pritzker Military Museum & Library
104 S. Michigan Ave., Suite 400
Chicago, IL 60603
Email: tembrey(a)pritzkermilitary.org
Web: www.pritzkermilitary.org
Phone: 312.374.9333
Fax: 312.374.9314
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Thanks for sharing Arne!
I love these internationally focused donations. Have you been using Patty
Pan? ( I see that you note the GLAM-Wiki toolset for one of them).
Cheers,
Alex
On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 7:36 AM, Arne Wossink <wossink(a)wikimedia.nl> wrote:
> (Apologies for cross-posting)
>
> Dear list-members,
>
> I would like to draw your attention to 3 digital collections originating
> from Dutch institutions that have recently been made available on Wikimedia
> Commons:
>
> 1. The African Studies Center
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrika-Studiecentrum,_Leiden>, Leiden
> University, donated 756 images made by Roel Coutinho
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Guinea-Bissau_and_Senegal_1973-1…>,
> a Dutch MD working in Guinea-Bissau and Senegal between 1973 and 1974. The
> images show aspects of daily life such as food preparation, festivities and
> school and hospital buildings, among other things. The metadata (including
> Portuguese captions) were prepared by Michele Portatadino, the upload was
> done by Hans Muller using the GWToolset.
>
> 2. The Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean
> Studies
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Netherlands_Institute_of_Southeast_Asia…>
> and Leiden University Library
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leiden_University_Library> donated 3114
> images <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:KITLV_donation_2016>
> to Wikimedia Commons as a follow-up to an earlier donation containing
> 2400+ images
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:KITLV_donation_2015>. The new
> donation contains photos, lithos, drawings, watercolours showing people,
> landscapes, plantations, plants and butterflies from countries such as
> Suriname, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan and Singapore. The upload was
> carried out by Hans Muller.
>
> 3. The National Museum of World Cultures
> <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17153751> (a merger of the former
> Tropenmuseum, the Museum Volkenkunde and the Afrika Museum) donated a collection
> of 720 images
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Files_from_the_Nationaal_Museum…>
> to Wikimedia Commons. This donation consists of photos of objects from the
> museum's collection, and of photos taken during Dutch scientific and
> military expeditions in Suriname and the Dutch East Indies.
>
> Best,
>
> Arne Wossink
>
> Projectleider / Project Lead Wikimedia Nederland
>
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